Bolton High School - Bruin Yearbook (Alexandria, LA)

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Superintendent’s Message To The Student Body: If I were a high school student I should endeavor to do a few things of importance thoroughly. First: I should take ad- vantage of the opportunities offered in the field of physi- cal training and athletics to such an extent as would fit me physically for healthy liv- ing, hard work and endur- ance, for without a healthy, active body one is handicap- ped throughout life. Second: I should endeavor to be known by and to know intimately the outstanding and worthy members of the student body; their friendship would be cultivated; then I should like to know all the others as well as possible. Friendships formed during high school and college years are the most enduring and valuable. Third: Another most valuable aim would be to gain as intimate and thorough knowledge as possible of the English language, its history, structure, its artistic features. The ability to read and write the English language correctly is no mean accomplishment; the ability to speak it before an audience with accuracy and force makes one a master of men. MR. W. J. AVERY Superintendent of Schools PnniHps Parish Fourth: It would be my aim to know well one foreign language; I should want to be able to read, write and speak it. Fifth: I should learn enough of mathematics, science, history and art to aid materially in my choice of a college course and my occupation or profession. Sixth: Along with these other accomplishments, and not the least of them, I should want to learn to do my own thinking, making full use of all assistance offered by teachers, texts and equipment. W. J. AVERY.

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MR. S. M. BRAME, Principal Bolton High School PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE The pages of Bruin, like Hamlet’s players, are brief and abstract chron- icles of the time, attracting not only our passing interest, but holding in reserve for the future many a happy hour for those who would like to look back over their high school days. Who knows but that some of your children, or even grandchildren, will pore over these very pages, seeking to know what manner of boys and girls you were back in the nineteen twenties. May there always be a Bruin. S. M. BRAME. ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE To the Senior Class of 1929: Ill-fated is that acorn, sad its lot, Which drops beneath the tree on which it grew. ’Twill not amount to much in such a spot— Perhaps a spindling tree whose days are few. But that which, by the grace of some kind wind, Is carried to a broad and distant field. Where other hardy kin no chance have seen, Has space to spread its branches and to yield. Unlike the nut, your mind is wind enow. Your intellect should waft you where you will. So ask no odds, nor aught to show you how. Determination must your hope fulfill. JOS. D. SMITH. MR. J. D. SMITH Assistant Principal